Which would you prefer, a sick brain that could draw or a fixed one that can't? Tough call, huh? You can't really make a proper choice until you've experienced both sides of the equation. Ideally, there would be a third choice, a healthy brain that could still draw (and do other things) well. My brain isn't completely fixed so ...

Go in for a routine scan, four and a half minutes later I'm scheduled for emergency brain surgery. My life is one big soap opera. This post is really just to explain where I've been the last week, just in case anyone cared. It's very worrying when only a few minutes into a scan you hear your neurosurgeon say the F word. I knew I was ...

While I wait for some sort of operation - I don't know what it is or when it is, just that it's happening sometime this week - the blood flow in my brain has passed from the left to the right hemisphere, which is good for my creativity but bad for my brain in general. For each challenge, including ones that finished months ago, ...

Okay so if you know me you already know about my health issues, so I won't go into the details, but anyway it's pushing against my optic nerve and I'm already having troubles with my drawing because of that. The problem is, most of the careers I'm looking at require vaguely-okay sight at all times - no reason to be hiring a half ...

Before I start my rant on the shoddy electric company that keeps turning my computer off mid-sketch, is there a "Corel Painter for absolute, completely clueless, never-painted before, Idiots" book out there? I just recieved the Corel Painter magazine (issue 2 ) and - since I'd just read through Linda Bergkvist's tutorials on ...

Warning: Super-long uninteresting personal ramble ahead!! Ok so I really want to get into the Games industry; it's like my career goal at the moment so I suppose it was fate that landed a huge article on getting into the industry at my local newsagent, covering everything you need to get the job of your dreams..... I recommend you read ...